Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Zemfyre Inc. operates within the Networking & Security technology area, where it currently has 1 pending office action. This prosecution activity is confined to 1 distinct art unit and involves 1 distinct examiner. Such a concentrated profile suggests that the company's current patent efforts are highly specialized within a specific technical niche. The presence of only 1 active matter indicates a period of focused prosecution activity for the firm within the Networking & Security sector.
The busiest examiner for Zemfyre Inc. is ANDERSON, MICHAEL D, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This 1 pending action constitutes the entirety of the company's current workload at the patent office. Consequently, the immediate progress of the portfolio depends on the specific requirements and feedback from this 1 examiner. For the practitioner, this means that the examiner's individual tendencies and the specific requirements of the 1 distinct art unit will be the primary factors determining the success of the current portfolio.
The alignment of the company's 1 pending action with a single examiner provides a clear and direct path for prosecution. This lack of complexity in the administrative structure can simplify communication and tracking for the legal team. However, it also means that any challenges encountered with ANDERSON, MICHAEL D will affect the company's entire pending patent presence. The focus on a single art unit further underscores the specialized nature of the technology currently being sought for protection.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (100%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANDERSON, MICHAEL D | 1 | 80.1% | +15.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18682884 | Secure Unmanaged Network Switch and Related Methods | ANDERSON, MICHAEL D | 28d |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18682884 | Secure Unmanaged Network Switch and Related Methods | ANDERSON, MICHAEL D | 28d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2433 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18682884 | Secure Unmanaged Network Switch and Related Methods | ANDERSON, MICHAEL D | 2433 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Feb 09, 2024 |
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